MediaRing Launches New Version Of Internet Phone Software
November 16, 1998
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A.: MediaRing has a new version of its Internet telephony software, Talk99, ready to show at this year's Comdex/Fall trade show. The company offers unlimited phone calls, anywhere and any time, over the Internet for $4.95 per month.
Using MediaRing Talk99 requires that the software -- which is available for free from the company's World Wide Web site at mediaring.com -- be on both the caller's computer and the computer at the receiving end. It also requires that both computers be switched on and their modems connected to telephone lines, but not that either computer be connected to the Internet before the call is made.
When the caller initiates a call, the software automatically logs on to the Internet, a spokesman for the company told Newsbytes. It then rings the telephone at the other end and uses a patented process to signal the receiving computer to connect to the Internet.
MediaRing Talk99 also provides voice mail. Voice messages are stored on a MediaRing server, the spokesman said, and the system sends an e-mail message to the recipient to tell him or her to pick up the voice message.
The software also supports Caller ID, has an integrated telephone book and a call log that remembers all calls -- including those the recipient was not available to take -- and has a "Chat Box" for exchanging text messages during a conversation.
MediaRing Talk99 requires at least a 133-megahertz Pentium processor with 16 megabytes (MB) of memory, seven MB of free disk space, a 14.4K-bit-per-second modem, a Windows-compatible sound card, a microphone and speakers or an earphone. It works with Windows 95 or Windows 98, the company said.
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